There are just some people who simply cannot be stopped. As the very underground grows exponentially by the decade, it is only natural that we have come to the point where there are select names throughout its vast expanse that are constant in their stream of content as well as consistent in how often they impress us, listeners. We could sit here for hours talking about many names that are continuously doing their own thing and keeping the scene more than alive in many different ways, and Noise is one moniker that we’ve been hearing from more and more as time goes one. It has been a very productive past couple of years for Noise across his bands like Kanonenfieber and LieÞa with the latter already putting out an album earlier this year, but, apparently, it was already time for Non Est Deus to return to us despite putting out a magnificent creation of blasphemy just last year.

To say that there is more than enough supply of blasphemy in all of its different forms throughout the underground would be putting it mildly at best. Some are able to bring it forward better than others as tends to be the case for everything, but it is in the case of Non Est Deus that we get a particularly potent hatred and disdain for anything that claims to be holy of any sort with the melodic black and death metal approach of the act always more than perfect to lay waste to such false divinity. It has been the way since its debut that Non Est Deus has focused more on the black metal aspects of its sound, but it is with the arrival of “Legacy” that we see the act shift more to its death metal tendencies with results that are fitting for the band whose reputation has only been growing over the years.

As its fourth album in five years, there is no question to the fact that Non Est Deus is a certifiable embodiment of what it means to assault the very light of the universe with impunity and such a ruthless approach that all those before its might rightfully cower. Overloaded with more than enough melodies to get the attention of throngs and keep it all the while, “Legacy” has not one disappointing minute through all of its nine-track run with everything that Non Est Deus has ever been known for coming together to a magnificent degree such that it begs to be debated as the best work from Noise altogether. The very potency of the album is not to be trifled with as the riffs, the darkness, and the very hostility of Non Est Deus all come together in raw fury towards those that would pretend to be of some holy farce with only the ending of “Legacy” being the singular end to the hell that is brought forth after these fiery forty-one minutes. Yet, that does not truly quench that hellfire for the very tenacity of the spiritual torture that is “Legacy” knows not how to leave survivors untainted much less leave survivors at all.

It’s only natural that such unfettered hatred for the lies of religion would keep an act as talented and pervasive as Non Est Deus from staying silent for more than barely a year before the next offensive was launched in full force. For all that it dares to tear down and raze in all of its justifiable fury for the incorporeal yet self-righteous, “Legacy” is sure to stand tall amongst many of the blasphemous creations of 2023 with the melody and focused rage that truly drives this record forward so that by the time you find yourself at its end, the very fires of hell are already doing far more to your soul that merely licking your heels in your pitiful attempts to flee.

LISTEN to “Legacy” on Bandcamp here.

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